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unusual facts about Pine Ridge Reservation



Black Elk Speaks

In the summer of 1930, as part of his research into the Native American perspective on the Ghost Dance movement, the poet and writer John Neihardt, already the Nebraska Poet Laureate, received permission from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to go to the Pine Ridge Reservation with his two daughters to meet an Oglala holy man and shaman named Black Elk.

Red Shirt, South Dakota

It is on the Pine Ridge Reservation, just outside Badlands National Park.


see also

Standing Silent Nation

Standing Silent Nation is a 2006 documentary film about Alex White Plume, an industrious resident of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation.

Whiteclay, Nebraska

In 2005, the state of Nebraska and President Cecilia Fire Thunder of the Pine Ridge reservation signed an agreement to allow Oglala tribal officers to enforce Nebraska laws in Whiteclay by deputizing them as Nebraska agents.